Nursing History
The "mother" of nursing worked was a seminal figure in this war during the 19th century
What is the Crimean War
The national voice for academic nursing
What is the American Association of Colleges of Nursing/AACN
Mammogram screenings are an example of this sphere of care.
What is Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
This organization has published The Essentials series, which provides the educational framework for the preparation of nurses at four-year colleges and universities.
What is the AACN
This skill set is rooted in the development of nursing education and practice. It focuses on reflective thinking, the integration of standards and ethics, and is a process of constant evaluation, redirection and improvement aimed at increasing efficiency and patient outcomes.
What is Critical Thinking
This university from the "Land of 10,000 Lakes" established the first BSN program in 1909.
What is University of Minnesota
These organizations are responsible for protecting the public's health and welfare, licensure, and standards of safe nursing practice.
What are state boards of nursing
According to this organization, students must demonstrate competencies through practice experiences with individuals, families, communities, and populations across the lifespan and within each of these four spheres of care.
What is the ANA
Shifting U.S. population demographics, health workforce shortages, and persistent health inequities have led to the inclusion of this principle in The Essentials.
What is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion or DEI
HIPAA is the abbreviated title for this legislation that focuses on patient information, accessibility, and confidentiality.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
This historical nursing figure is known for her contributions to hygiene, sanitation and statistical nursing research.
Who is Florence Nightingale
This organization can exist at the school, state, or national levels, providing students with professional organizational experience and leadership roles.
What is the National Student Nurses Association/NSNA
A nurse is assisting a patient and family in the early stages of navigating a new diagnosis. The nurse has provided the patient with options regarding pain management options that can be combined with curative treatment if desired. The nurse is operating under this sphere of care
What is Hospice/Palliative Care
The generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care is the descriptor of this Essential Domain.
What is Domain 4: Scholarship for Nursing Discipline
This concept discussed in Unit 3 is defined as an approach to the delivery of health care that integrates the best information from studies and patient care data with clinician expertise and patient preferences and values.
What is Evidence-Based Practice
This Civil War nurse worked as an abolitionist, as an agent for the Underground Railroad, and was an early advocate for women's rights.
Who is Sojourner Truth
This organization is the single largest payer for health care services in the United States. In FY 2021 they paid over $400 billion in payments.
What is Medicare
A school nurse has identified several health conditions in her school. She notes cases of asthma, low vaccine compliance and high obesity rates. The school board approves funding for a vaccine clinic to be hosted prior to the start of school. This nurse is engaging in this sphere of care.
What is Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
This Essentials Concept refers to principles that guide a person’s behavior and is closely tied to the examination of nursing morality in a variety of settings and circumstances.
What are Ethics
This criminal nurse reviewed in Unit 6 was instructed to administer Versed (a sedating drug) to a patient but mistakenly administered vecuronium (a paralyzing drug), resulting in the patient's death and her subsequent criminal trial and loss of licensure.
Who is RaDonda Vaught
This well-known author used profits from his writing career to fund his nursing services during the Civil War.
Who is Walt Whitman
This organization is the nation’s oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care and has the uncanny ability to terrify even the most seasoned nurses.
What is the Joint Commission
This sphere of care features; complex acute care, acute exacerbations of chronic conditions, and treatment of physiologically unstable patients that generally require care in large healthcare institutions.
What is Regenerative/Restorative Care
This 2016 document cited by The Essentials, identified a path for achieving enhanced partnerships between nursing schools and academic health institutions that focused on improving healthcare outcomes.
What is Advancing Healthcare Transformation: A New Era for Academic Nursing
This concept from Unit 5 focuses on the ability to convey acceptance to patients and requires self-awareness and nonjudgmental attitudes on the part of nurses.
What is the Therapeutic Use of Self